There were seven races at yesterday’s Cloyne Harriers point-to-point fixture at Dromahane and the Tom Keating-trained Mortlestown attained due reward for his consistency by winning a vintage first division of the five and six-year-old geldings’ maiden in the hands of ‘Corky’ Carroll, who immediately dedicated the victory to his stricken colleague JT McNamara.

JOHN McCONNELL, who moved from his Monaghan base to the Curragh last week, was on the mark at Cork yesterday when Coolnaharan landed the Alchemy Properties Handicap Hurdle.